Utterly brilliant. The mad scientists at Toshiba attached 8 HD cameras to an armchair and weather balloon and launched them to the edge of space.
Stunning visuals of our tiny little fragile beautiful planet. Wow. Wait for the balloon pop at the end.
So makes me want to go into space to see the curve of the planet.
Story of Stuff author Annie Leonard presents her reasons that Cap and Trade is flawed and that the most important thing we need to do is agree on the global cap. Great animation: plain speaking, clear, concise and most of all, understandable.
Mmmm… Fresh Quicksilver.
I have been waiting for ages for an update to perhaps the most often used application on my mac. Seriously, the time this thing saves me in just allowing me to find, launch, or manipulate info with a simple CMD-space is unreal.
According to Lifehacker, looks like it’s those crazy github coder kids (rather than the creator who is busy working on Chrome OS) who have pushed this one out to the eagerly awaiting masses.
This is so many kinds of awesome.The guy who put this together is a genius.
And please remember to slap a climate change denier today. Hard. Really… you’re doing them a favour. I’m offering a bounty on Stephen Harper.
RAP NEWS - Copenhagen: Gore v Monckton
Incredibly moving and such a fantastic sentiment. Bonne dimanche.
The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical and spiritual traditions, calling us always to treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves. Compassion impels us to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the centre of our world and put another there, and to honour the inviolable sanctity of every single human being, treating everybody, without exception, with absolute justice, equity and respect."
Amazing time lapse of someone’s trip from Denver to Singapore via Chicago and Tokyo, all compressed down to 5 minutes. Incredible little piece of work.
Um, I’ve done more than a few of these things with ActiveRecord in a Rails app. You probably have too. From the fine folks at the Engine Yard.
OK, very geeky, but believe it or not, I almost once went down this path and was supposed to be at university originally studying astrophysics and the nature of reality. Still not sure what happened. Ok, well there was that blonde girl that distracted me, but…
Love this summary of seven questions that keep physicists up at night .
This is a fantastic ad out of Ireland: What if you had to ask everyone in a country whether you could marry someone ?
BTW, watching this ad makes me very proud to be Canadian (even if I’m down here in Oz), since gay marriage is legal in the True North Strong and Free.
One of the more exciting things about the new gig is the full-on focus on campaigning. This video was shot in one day… yep, one day with the bulk of the post-production work done that same day by the amazing guys who we shot it with. Absolutely great experience and learned loads.
Want to help get this ad seen and create a sustainable future for Australia? Please donate to get this aired in the same marginal seats the coal lobby is targeting.